The Telegraph's Fame & Fortune column has interviewed a vast array
of celebrities in 2013. We highlight some of the most memorable quotes

"I never see the fact that a building is a financial asset as being of prime importance. I don't look back and think "I regret buying that" or "That was a mistake" or "I shouldn't have sold that, I should have stayed there. The financial asset for me is just part of the story. The real value in a house, in a street and in objects is a value that's like a conduit for human energy."

"When I started making money I started giving my mum money here and there and then it started getting more and more, like five grand here, 10 grand there, and it got ridiculous. In a way I was glad I got made bankrupt because it got my mum off my back.

"I'm really weird around money. I feel like I have to pay and bought my husband whatever he wanted: he had a Ferrari, a Lamborghini, an Aston Martin, a Porsche. He kept changing them but we always had a few cars at one time."

"I remember it was Christmas time and I didn’t have a pot to p--- in. I had no money. I was in a flat with just a bed in the front room and I was eating beans on toast for Christmas dinner by myself. It was brutal. If I’d gone to the bank to take all my money out there wouldn’t have been a cent. I was that broke."

Calum Best spoke about the financial lows after his father, football legend George Best, died.

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"Anything I had to do with finances is to do with my wife, the Booby. She handles absolutely everything. I'm going through an employment tribunal age discrimination case right now and the Booby produced all my financial records going back 30 years. She handles all the money. I've no idea what we've got and where it is. And she does all the investments. I'm determined not to leave any money because it would likely go to the Government and I can't think of who I want to leave it to anyway."

Horse racing pundit John McCririck speaking in September. He lost his tribunal case in November.

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"I'm hoping that the Bank Rate of interest will improve because I think it stinks, because you work all your life, I'm now 63, so now I want my money to be earning for me. And it's not. So I'm hoping that that will change, I think it's really not good, especially for people my age. So I'm just trying to be careful, I hope that the interest rate improves and I just keep enjoying my life, that's the main thing. I hope that I have enough to see me through my days in the comfort that I want to live in."

US singer Suzi Quatro on the problem of low interest rates. (September)

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"I've always worked – whether making sandwiches at a local café to pay my way through my BBC trainee journalism course or working as a receptionist during my university holidays to supplement and pay my university fees. I didn't have parents who could afford to give me the money so I knew I had to earn it myself."

Kate Silverton on the focus and dedication that helped her pay off her mortgage in three years. (July)

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"A judge has ruled I can't discuss the financial settlement. It's an abysmal situation and the lawyers hide behind the phrase 'we must protect the children'. What I can say is the legal fees alone cost £4m. I hadn't been overdrawn since the early days of Quality Care Homes, but by the end of the divorce I was back to living on credit cards. The money I spent could have built several schools in Haiti."

Duncan Bannatyne on divorce. He also disclosed he was always paid £950 a day for Dragon's Den. (November)

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"I didn't mind at all. It was the first series and I'd been told that everything is tongue-in-cheek. One reason I laughed so much was that Caroline Aherne had just married a millionaire [Peter Hook from New Order] but when I married Paul he wasn't one."

Debbie McGee's response when asked whether she resented being asked by Caroline Aherne "what first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels?" (September)

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"When I did Britain’s Got Talent in June 2007 we were two months in arrears and banks usually start repossession proceedings when you get to three months. Then of course everything changed when I won the first prize of £100,000 on June 17 2007."

Opera singer Paul Potts on his brush with bankruptcy, before becoming a multi-millionaire. (June)